Alejandro Adem

Alejandro Adem is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia and President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Previously he was Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences for the period 2008–2015 and during 2015-2019 was the CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs. In 2024 he was reappointed to a second five-year term as President of NSERC.

Education and academic career Alejandro Adem did his undergraduate studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, earning a B.S. in 1982. (2012) and the 2015 Jeffery–Williams Prize, which was awarded to him by the Canadian Mathematical Society, with the following citation: "he stands out as one of the few mathematicians who has made important qualitative and calculational contributions to the theory of the cohomology of groups, and applied these results to problems of algebraic topology". In 2016 he was elected corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. In 2020 he was made a Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society. and in 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Personal life Adem is the son of geophysicist :es:Julián Adem, who obtained a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1953. He is also the nephew of noted topologist José Adem (see Adem relations), who obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1952. His father and uncle were both, in their own specialties, elected members of Mexico's exclusive El Colegio Nacional, and were both recipients of Mexico's National Prize for Arts and Sciences.

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